Michael Sam Must 'Become Ex-Gay, Ex-Homosexual,' According To Peter LaBarbera

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College football standout Michael Sam has garnered praise from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates and allies after publicly coming out, but one conservative voice is crying foul.

"God does not give homosexuality as part of who you are," LaBarbera noted. "I think that’s the saddest thing of all, to think that sexual sin is part of who you are. We need to pray that the Lord will touch him, he will be sought out by Christians in the NFL."

Listen to LaBarbera's remarks on Sam in the audio clip below, courtesy of Right Wing Watch:

He concluded, "The NFL and all these pro-homosexual people are not his friends."

"All of those little kids are going to be seeing two men or two women or whatever it is getting so-called married and it’s going to infect their minds and corrupt those young minds," LaBarbera told the American Family Association's Sandy Rios.

In 2012, he blasted the Obama administration for turning the U.S. into "a huge gay-rights government," adding, "There's lots of government and states, whether they're Muslim or like ardently Christian nations like Uganda that don't want, they don't share the caviler attitude of the West toward homosexuality, they certainly don't want to promote it."

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Kirk Cameron

During<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/03/kirk-cameron-piers-morgan-homosexuality-unnatural_n_1318430.html" target="_hplink"> an interview with Piers Morgan</a>, the "Growing Pains" heartthrob who transitioned from a "teen-idol-atheist in Hollywood and became a devoted follower of Jesus Christ in the middle of [his] career" explained that he believes homosexuality is "unnatural... I think that it's detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization."
On the issue of marriage equality Cameron remarked, "Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve -- one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't."